Roman Abramovich

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (24 October 1966-) was a Russian business oligarch and the owner of the Millhouse LLC private investment company and the Chelsea FC soccer team in the United Kingdom. From 17 December 2000 to 3 July 2008, he served as Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, succeeding Alexander Nazarov and preceding Roman Kopin.

Biography
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born in Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 24 October 1966 to a Jewish family, and he was educated at the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas. During perestroika, he sold imported rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment, and he became the owner of a dollmaking company in 1988. Abramovich later invested in pig farms and oil companies, and he set up and liquidated 20 companies during the 1990s. In 1995, he acquired the controlling interest for the Sibneft oil company with the assistance of fellow oligarch Boris Berezovsky, and he paid billions of dollars to Russian government officials and obtained protection from the Russian Mafia so that he could acquire aluminum assets during the "aluminum wars". By 1996, when Abramovich was 30 years old, he had befriended President Boris Yeltsin and moved into an apartment in the Kremlin, and the powerful Abramovich was elected Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug on the northeastern Pacific Ocean coast of Russia in 2000, serving in that post for 8 years. Yeltsin wielded considerable political influence, and he was the first person to recommend Vladimir Putin as Yeltsin's successor in politics. In 2003, he became the owner of Chelsea FC in the United Kingdom, and he built up a fortune of $7,000,000,000 in 2016, making him the 151st richest person in the world and the 13th richest person in Russia.